The other day in class, we were doing a lesson that involved tilting your legs one way, bending the chest the other way, rolling the head and whistling Dixie. OK, just kidding about the whistling. At one point a student exclaimed, “Wait! Wait! My brain is...

The other day, I was teaching a lesson that put the hand into what some people call “backbend” position, a term which is unfamiliar for many. So I suggested that people place the hand on the floor with the fingers pointing toward the shoulder. One woman...

Now that Ringling Bros. have announced their final season, I find myself reflecting on the word circus. What will happen to it, if there is no more circus? Will it re-boot itself to mean something new? After all, the original “circus” was simply the arena...

They say if you bang a drum long enough, people start to listen. Imagine my delight when I came across this NY Times article by Thomas Friedman. Ever since I read Antonio Damasio’s seminal book, Descarte’s Error, I’ve been trying to tell people,...

Learn at first, concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light. From the Magician Card – Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, Anonymous I was having...

O would some power the gift to give us To see ourselves as others see us. Robert Burns What gets in the way of our dreams? People often blame outer circumstances for the detours and dead ends on their life path....

Enjoy this fun meditation by Houston Feldenkrais Practitioner, Mary Beth Smith The Mardi Gras season breathes its last gasp today. New Orleans, Galveston, and other cities in the Southern U.S. bid adieu to their revelers and pack away the parade floats until the next...

I’ve been working on a play for four years. It sounds crazy when I say it. Even crazier when I tell people it’s a comedy. There are people out there writing comedies that air every week and it’s taken me four years? People say, “You write so much already, why a play?”...

“What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.” Moshe Feldenkrais I’ve always been intrigued by humans’ fascination with transformation. From Clark Kent in the phone booth to the Transformers phenomenon, we harbor a secret desire to be, if not...

My husband Ron and I recently had a lively debate on the subject of quality and experience. He’s an artist, with a firm belief that anyone can sense quality when they experience it. I insisted that a person can only discriminate based on previous experience. I...

I’m standing as I write this article. Well, not just standing. I’m also periodically jogging in place, practicing my Zumba moves and throwing in an occasional downward facing dog. You see, I’m preparing myself for a brave new world. It seems that while I was sprawled...